October 5/6/7

October 5/6/7

Sat, Oct. 6 | 10:00 am | 90 minutes

Kehinde Wiley Talks with Vinson Cunningham

Portraits of power.

Art

Photograph by Tony Powell

Kehinde Wiley is a visual artist whose paintings can be viewed in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Walker Art Center, and the Hammer Museum, and in exhibitions around the world. His portrait of Barack Obama was revealed on February 12, 2018, and is included in the permanent collection at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, in Washington, D.C. His mid-career retrospective “A New Republic,” organized by the Brooklyn Museum, was on tour through 2017, and his solo exhibition at the Saint Louis Art Museum opens October 19, 2018.

Vinson Cunningham joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2016. His writing on books, art, and culture has appeared in the Times Magazine, the Times Book Review, Vulture, the Awl, The Fader, and McSweeney’s, where he wrote a column called “Field Notes from Gentrified Places.” He previously served as a staff assistant at the Obama White House. His piece “The Shifting Perspective in Kehinde Wiley’s Portrait of Barack Obama” appeared on newyorker.com on February 13, 2018.